India was placed at 59th position in the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) 2012-13, three places lower from the last survey of the World Economic Forum (WEF) due to unsatisfactory performance in the fundamental factors supporting competitiveness. India has lost 10 places since peaking at 49 in 2009 and lags behind China by a margin of 30 positions.
In the latest survey, Switzerland tops the position for the fourth consecutive year in the global list. Singapore occupies the second position followed by Finland, Sweden, Netherlands, Germany, US, UK, Hong Kong and Japan occupies the 10th position.
WEF reported that India’s infrastructure is generally 'insufficient' and 'ill-adapted' to the requirements of the economy and the country also faces dilemma areas such as corruption and bureaucracy. Hence it fails to satisfy the fundamental factors and gets penalized for its performance.
However, it was found India possess a number of strengths in the more advanced and complex drivers of competitiveness. This “reversed” pattern of development is characteristic of India. It can rely on a fairly well developed and sophisticated financial market (21st) that can channel financial resources to good use, and it boasts reasonably sophisticated (40th) and innovative (41th) businesses.
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